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23Self and Other in Ethics and Law: A Comment on MandersonAustralian Journal of Legal Philosophy 33 145-151. 2008.This article engages with Desmond Manderson's recent book, Proximity, Levinas and the Soul of Law. I begin by examining a vexed topic in Levinas scholarship: namely, the very possibility of a Levinasian legal theory. Manderson makes a constructive and, I think, important contribution to this question, insisting that Levinas does not require us to segregate the domains of ethics and law, as some interpreters have suggested. This basic issue provides us with a springboard to explore two other them…Read more
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Levinasian ethics and the concept of lawIn Desmond Manderson (ed.), Essays on Levinas and law: a mosaic, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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